Staff Software Engineer, Vanta
Design Systems
AI trust management platform
Open for applications
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Over 9 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, design systems, accessibility, app performance, runtime)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft
- Extensive experience building tooling and abstractions for developers that result in user-facing experiences
- Expertise in debugging and supporting platform tooling for the frontend
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Vanta, you will play a critical role in driving the long-term technical strategy, leading complex initiatives, and making high-impact decisions that affect your product area and the broader engineering organization
- You will set the tone for engineering excellence and culture
- This role involves a mix of hands-on development, leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration
- You will work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ensure the alignment of systems with Vanta’s technical strategy, and you will actively influence key decisions across the organization
- Be a leader for and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards at Vanta bringing a high bar for design craft ensuring our components are both functional and refined
- Build, maintain, and update existing shared UI components to ensure they are consistent across our system and product, bug free, well tested, and well documented
- Educate all engineers in UX and industry standards and best practices, our Design System guidance, and how to implement in code
- Support product team use cases through building new shared patterns when it makes sense to extend the system, or updating guidance
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems
- Lead key technical decisions that will form the system’s stance and recommendations for product teams
- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members
- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions
- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for startups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with startups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta's latest $150M raise, boosting its valuation to $4.15B, highlights the company's rapid growth and strong market position. With AI-driven automation, expanding government partnerships, and strategic acquisitions on the horizon, Vanta is scaling quickly while solving real customer problems. Backed by a talented leadership team and a growing customer base, the company looks set to continue its upward trajectory and build a lasting, sustainable business.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $500.2m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Vanta in 2017, Christina worked in Product Management for Dropbox. She was also a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and worked on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures.
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